Definition of minims:
(n) :
A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
(n) :
(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
(n) :
(zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
(n) :
Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
(n) :
A little man or being; a dwarf.
(n) :
A small fish; a minnow.